The big table Should churches be based around big tables? [September 2008] Modular altar Everyone bring a piece [September 2008] Mainframe v distributed church Is your church a dumb terminal? [September 2008] This is not a church... this is Elements of an urban church, long version page 2 [November 2007] This is not a church... this is Elements of an urban church, long version page 1 [November 2007] God in your iPod Music in alternative worship [December 2006 for Church Music Quarterly] This is not a church... this is Elements of an urban church [October 2006] Oranges and lemons Ringtones as the new church bells [July 2006] Network theory presentation Created for Blah conference 21.07.06 Labydome Trolls and labytubbies live inside [June 2006] Alternative worship presentations Created for URC ministers' conference 17th-18th March 2006 Discipline service planning notes Grace February 2006 Life after Christendom How are we church, when 'a churchless faith' becomes the only kind? [November 2005 for Movement magazine 122] Box models of church In and out of the box [June 2005] Omelette Church You can't make an omelette without breaking eggs [June 2005] Wayfinder Centralised and distributed leadership [May 2005] Who is my neighbour? Local church 64km [May 2005] Centre & margins Old and new models [May 2005] Spiritual signage 2 Navigation aids for urban spirituality - second version [January 2005] Just because I'm in the kitchen and you're in the hall doesn't mean we're not at the same party [January 2005] Mission without strings Selling a worldview, not an event [November 2004 for Movement magazine 119] Spi-fi Spiritual spaces in the city [October 2004] Network Church Flash map Is this street church? [August 2004] Network Church [November 2003 and March 2004 for Movement magazines 116 & 117] Spiritual signage Navigation aids for urban spirituality [January 2004] The Last Waltz: how the Church never made it past 1967: part 3 Has youthwork actually been responsible for the decline in church membership? [December 2003] The Last Waltz: how the Church never made it past 1967: part 2 Youthwork innovation versus adult church conservatism [December 2003] The Last Waltz: how the Church never made it past 1967: part 1 A cultural turning point made manifest by music [December 2003] Set theory Open and closed models of church [November 2003] Policemen & shepherds [July 2003 for Movement magazine 115] Liquid church 1 The scent of God in the city [June 2003] Kirchelandschaft 3 New forms of church interior [May 2003] Kirchelandschaft 2 New forms of church interior [May 2003] Biblical inerrancy The Bible as a cracked container for the voices of God [March 2003] Searching for small rituals [March 2003 for Movement magazine 114] Cornershop Small church in a world of supermarket spirituality [February 2003] Kirchelandschaft 1 New forms of church interior [February 2003] Arrival Church entry spaces [February 2003] Boundary condition Church as in-between space [February 2003] Immediatism [some extracts] by Hakim Bey - could be about alt worship! [January 2003] Manifesto by other people Pertinent thoughts by others [January 2003] Whose story? Whose story does the music in your church embody - your own, or someone else's? [November 2002 for Movement magazine 113] Chillout How a musical genre shaped alternative worship [October 2002 for alternativeworship.org] A method called alternative worship [October 2002 for Seven magazine] Network church and portfolio church New patterns of church in a mobile world. [August 2002 for Ship of Fools] Right thing, wrong place The Labyrinth fails to draw the crowds at Glastonbury Festival. Why? [July 2002 for Ship of Fools] Mountains of the Lord The spirituality of snowboarding. [June 2002 for Movement magazine 112] London Eye Prayer You can see for 20 miles all around on the London Eye, so where better to pray over the city? [June 2002 for Ship of Fools] Serious Business Words are the wrong language for heaven. Lessons from snowboarding. [May 2002 for Seven magazine] Alternative worship is not about youth Alternative worship is not about youth. [May 2002 for Ship of Fools] Church for a changing culture: an introduction to alternative worship Written for alternativeworship.org April 2002 Inside the stained glass window Visions, York, Easter Saturday 2002. [April 2002 for Ship of Fools] Come as you are? Why sex is not a big issue in alternative worship. [March 2002 for Ship of Fools] How far is too far? Are Vaux just taking the piss? [February 2002 for Ship of Fools] Different sides of the glass Club culture and the Church. [January 2002 for Movement magazine 111] Church without commitment If church were just a good night out, would you pay to get in? [January 2002 for Ship of Fools] A weekly work of the people Is a monthly act of worship enough, or do we need to do something weekly for the sake of community? [December 2001 for Ship of Fools] CPU The Church needs a creative projects unit. [November 2001] Church just isn't there when you need it "Most alt worship communities are not growing significantly"... is it true? [November 2001 for Ship of Fools] Coffee and campfires Introducing Cathy Kirkpatrick, who believes that our job is to model ways of living the kingdom of God without the church. [October 2001 for Ship of Fools] Keyboard This is a time for small fires [October 2001] Plug-in Church Mechanisms of membership [October 2001] Pieces Can we offer pieces for their puzzle without completing it ourselves? [September 2001] Church as third place Imagine good coffee and wi-fi and the C of E rebranded [September 2001] Third place Neither home nor work [September 2001] Nolli plan The interiors of churches have vanished from the urban fabric [September 2001] Sofa The new pew [September 2001] Toolbox Church as rich ambient [September 2001] Doing How can we be so busy and so bored? [September 2001] Work Work is serious, church isn't. [September 2001] Bring back the pews (not) The Greenbelt festival: which groups were there, what did they do, and can we now ditch the stylistic trappings? [September 2001 for Ship of Fools] Church and community Are we too tired to bother? [August 2001] The church as sensual otherworld Church buildings used to be heavenly spaces, but the stained glass has been outshone by television... [August 2001 for Ship of Fools] All-age alternative worship in Bristol When Bristol's Third Sunday Service moved churches, the age-range expanded to encompass 9-87 year-olds... [July 2001 for Ship of Fools] Good vibrations Welcome to Global Lounge, "an afternoon of sofas, music, performance, community and edutainment," in London's Brick Lane. [June 2001 for Ship of Fools] If worship is a city If worship is a city... is it Singapore or Glasgow? Rio de Janeiro or Kansas? London or Lagos? [May 2001 for Ship of Fools] Anarchy in the USA A report on the Epicenter/Tribal Generation event in Austin, Texas, complete with the Senses Lab and Luscious Room. [April 2001 for Ship of Fools] Straying from the path Someone wants to adapt your idea but ends up subverting it. A labyrinth event in Nottingham raises uncomfortable issues. [March 2001 for Ship of Fools] The image of God Christians aren't concerned with outward appearances, but western culture is. So where's the connection? [February 2001 for Ship of Fools] The word of life and the power of love celebrating the power of love at Christmas with Host, Hackney, London. [January 2001 for Ship of Fools] I will make you fish What does it mean to embody Christ in your place and time? [December 2000 for Ship of Fools] A little child will lead them Turning life and worship upside down at Vaux in south London. [November 2000 for Ship of Fools] Photocopy your face for Jesus How a cold photocopier became a place of encounter with God. [October 2000 for Ship of Fools] Worship (alternative version) What is alternative worship? Alternative rock? Rave in the nave? Priestesses with piercings? [September 2000 for Ship of Fools] Some notes on judgement Active and passive judgement [August 1999]